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By not killing, a Serial Killer could potentially try to make people think that there's no SK in the game and thus make them feel safer? If they are playing The Long Game, they could wait for numbers to get thinned out and then strike unexpectedly at the very end with few people left, taking peeps by surprise. I mean, it is a very risky tactic, sure, but I have seen it being used before.

On the actual content: There's basically no reason for a typical serial killer to long con people, unless they have some sort of massive advantages.

Oh, I agree. I wasn't trying to say that the SK would gain anything from doing this, if anything, he would be taking an unnecessary risk by doing this. The people that I witnessed doing this in the past usually did it because they either enjoyed taking a gamble, or because of the potential payoff. Though unlikely, managing to be among the last few survivors and then killing off the last competitors out of nowhere is an incredibly satisfying way to win a game, satisfying enough for some people to take the risks that come with it.

That being said, I don't actually think this is what happened here. I do have slight doubts that there is a SK among us, however. The case of both scum and SK not successfully scoring a night kill is a rather unlikely one, unless maybe scum chose to not kill for some reason and the SK tried and failed for any of the reasons discussed and mentioned earlier. Just my two cents, which could be entirely off, of course.

If there is a dmboogie-Rorick connection, which I think is not unlikely

You are basing that on the last exchange alone? I will admit, I too deemed it strange that boogie answered on my behalf, by trying to make us drop the topic. Still, I see it as nothing more than him deeming it irrelevant to the overall discussion, which doesn't seem that strange, really.

You seem to be quite quick to make assumptions and point fingers here. This is my first time playing with any of you, so I don't know if this is what you usually act like, RC, but it still strikes me as slightly odd. In any case, I assure you there is no "connection" between me and boogie, I know about as much about him as you do, maybe even less.

Well, it's not like we have anything better to discuss yet, wouldn't you say? We could sit here in silence for another three days, sure, but that'd be just as productive as these pointless discussions.

RC, I would gladly show you proof of me being a townie, but as of this early state of the game, I, of course, have none. Let us end this discussion concerning my personage here for now, since I doubt it will get either of us anywhere. You are free to have your suspicions, but I will gladly prove you wrong once the moment is right and I get the oppurtunity to. If you even end up being on the Town's side, that is.

Look, I know that my job is to find scum, I have played Mafia before, just not on this board. Still, I feel that I also need people to know I'm town when the time comes, or otherwise my opinions and such will fall on deaf ears. I do have the suspicion that what you are trying to do is discredit me early on, paint me as the newb that doesn't know what they're doing and such. I feel that if we both end up being town, this discussion right now will be detrimental to potential teamwork in the future, so I would - again - ask of you to end this discussion right here, okay?

Well, he said me and boogie were likely to work together - therefore implying we're both scum - based on the mere fact that boogie deemed an irrelevant topic as irrelevant before I could give an answer concerning that topic. Furthermore, neither RC nor anyone else here know my usual style of playing Mafia, simply assuming the way I behave is what scum would behave like.

This does slightly rub me the wrong way, I won't lie, thus why I am trying to justify my behaviour here. All I wanna say is that while I may not have evidence of being a Townie, neither do you have any sort of proof to the contrary. As long as that doesn't change - and it won't - I'd like to not needlessly prolong this any further.